Masters of the German Renaissance - National Gallery

Swabian,  Portrait of a Woman of the Hofer Family, c 1470

Strange Beauty: Masters of the German Renaissance is at The National Gallery until 11 May 2014.
What fabulous paintings these are and what an amazing collection the National Gallery has. It does, however seem a little cheeky that the National Gallery is charging £7.00 for visitors to see a show which includes so many masterpieces which it normally shows for free!
Still, you can't have too much Holbein, Cranach and Dürer!
Read a review by Alastair Sooke.

Hans Holbein the Younger, Erasmus, 1523

Hans Holbein the Younger, A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling (Anne Lovell?), c 1526-8

Hans Holbein the Younger, Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve ('The Ambassadors'), 1533

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Cupid complaining to Venus, c 1525

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Portrait of a Woman, c 1525

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Saints Christina and Ottilia, 1506

Jan Gossaert, A Man holding a Glove, c 1530-2

Richard Deacon - Tate Britain (and The Wilson, Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum!)

Richard Deacon, After, 1988

Richard Deacon is at Tate Britain until 27 April 2014; Deacon's 1989 sculpture Kiss and Tell (see below) is currently on display in The Wilson, Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum.

Richard Deacon came to public attention in 1981 in an exhibition called 'Objects and Sculptures' shown at the ICA and the Arnolfini. Alongside Bill Woodrow, Tony Cragg, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor and others he was one of a loose group tagged 'New British Sculpture'. 
Whereas most of his peers forged a sculptural language that eschewed Minimalism's pure materialism in favour of figurative references and a narrative content responding to the contemporary urban and industrial social landscape, Deacon made, and continues to make, resolutely abstract work. His fantastically shaped forms betray a preoccupation with  the nature and possibilities of a wide range of material formed into hugely satisfying, beautiful and often suggestively organic shapes.
Read reviews by Rachel Cooke, Waldemar Januszczak and Alastair Sooke and a series of interviews with the artist on the Tate website.

Richard Deacon, It's Orpheus When There's Singing #7, 1978-9

Richard Deacon, Art for Other People #6, 1983

Richard Deacon, Art for Other People #12, 1984

Richard Deacon, Struck Dumb, 1988

Richard Deacon, Fold, 2012

Richard Deacon, Kiss and Tell, 1989 (On display in the Wilson, Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum)